Arizona Sonoran Copper Company Inc. announced the appointment of Steve Dixon as Chief Metallurgist. Steve has an M.S. in Metallurgical Engineering and B.S in Chemistry. He is based in Tucson, and joins with over 30 years of metallurgical management experience.

For the past 14 years, Steve has focused on consulting for mining, exploration and development companies and institutional investors for feasibility studies, project and process development and assistance to operations. His area of expertise is in leaching, process design and cost reduction as it relates to managing technical studies and process development and operations. Steve has held various project management and metallurgy roles at Goldcorp, Freeport-McMoRan, Quadra, Phelps Dodge Mining and others, with a special focus on the Americas.

Rounding out the appointments made within the last 18 months include, Bernie Loyer as SVP Projects, Chris White as Chief Mine Geologist, Dan Johnson Projects Director, Greg Phillips, Process Superintendent, Victor Moraila, Chief Mine Engineer, Graeme Hendricks, Senior Mine Engineer and now Steve Dixon, Chief Metallurgist.